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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThousands of workers across the U.S. would rather lose their jobs than be vaccinated
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1047947268/covid-vaccine-workers-quitting-getting-fired-mandatesAcross the country, employers are firing workers for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates. Some people are opting to quit their jobs rather than take the shot.
These workers represent only a tiny fraction of overall employees, not even 1% in some workplaces. But it can add up to thousands of people in many states.
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Their resistance has stirred great condemnation and controversy. Many view unvaccinated workers as a potential risk to the workplace. And overwhelmingly, workers have accepted and even embraced the science showing vaccines protect not only you but those around you.
The vast majority of Americans have complied with vaccine mandates. But for the vaccine holdouts, walking away from a job comes at a cost, one that's bigger for some than others.
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)"Liberal media" likes to create narratives and amplify issues that would have otherwise died out.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)I guess there's no hook in "millions of Americans elect to vaccinate for the good of their communities and country."
Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)Nope, gotta focus on the few stubborn malcontents.
PortTack
(32,757 posts)Response to Shrek (Original post)
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gab13by13
(21,317 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Particularly in people who should know better, such as NPR correspondents.
Thousands quit?
Millions don't.
Gore1FL
(21,128 posts)The workforce may be better without those who chose to go unnecessarily unvaccinated for more reasons than just their vaccination status.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)mind conquered an image of God telling her to not get vaccinated. Unfortunately she is taking it literally.
TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts)mcar
(42,306 posts)Millions of workers have been vaccinated but let's focus on the tiny minority as if it's a HUGE problem.
bluestarone
(16,914 posts)GOOD RIDDANCE! BYE BYE!
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Their choice. They want to walk away from their jobs, their decision. But don't expect anyone to feel sorry if you can't make your rent or mortgage payment.
Decisions have consequences.
Freedumb!
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)... Jul 6-21, 2021
Some have been alien spacecraft ... 41% ...
https://news.gallup.com/poll/350096/americans-believe-ufos.aspx
41% of 333 million is 136 million
About 58% of Americans are fully vaccinated against COVID
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They're out there, and another could speed around the planet any time. In an era when many are refusing to stop and even deliberately spreading disease out of factional hostility, one or more (!) could be spread out of control before the general public came to realize the danger.
Being able to institute mandatory controls, instituting procedures governmental and private, is not just a means of stopping the current pandemic disease but absolutely imperative protection against the next one, or more. We don't know when it will show up, but we do know it will, and not off in some distant future. Many pandemic-capable pathogens are known to be much more lethal than this one, including to children.
Aristus
(66,325 posts)I tell them: Not a chance; dont even hope.
Very few of the people making these requests are my regular patients. My regular patients know better.
My policy is: get your vaccines or get out.
CTyankee
(63,903 posts)MichMan
(11,912 posts)For some reason the mandate totally exempted those employees, leaving out a third of workers from having to comply with it.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-employee-vaccine-mandate-rules-98-percent-most-companies-unaffected-1627824
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Florida men (or women).
ProfessorGAC
(65,001 posts)...I read a Bloomberg article that said over 55% of small business owners are requiring vaccines.
Not every small business owner is a frothing idiot.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)for the good of their health, their communities, and their nation."
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,001 posts)These drones say that all the time, but now I hope it stings when it's turned against them.
Quitting over a shot? Must be a lazy, freeloading taker!